Windows Phone Thoughts: Developing Windows Mobile on Vista

"There was an announcement made this week about Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and support for Vista. In a nutshell, SP1 won't resolve all the issues of running VS on Vista. However, I want to point out that if you're developing Windows Mobile applications, there isn't much to worry about. I've been using Visual Studio on Vista for months now, developing and debugging both managed and native applications. Apart from a few setup issues, everything works great. The minor setup issues have workarounds that were mentioned on the VSD blog a while back. I've been told by the VSD team that these issues will be also fixed in SP1 instead of the post-Vista update, so that's great news."

Mel Sampat has released a video and info on Visual Studio 2005's compatibility with Vista. In a nutshell, it sounds like you'll have a few work-arounds to implement, but nothing horribly bad if you want to take the Vista plunge. Personally, I'm waiting until Vista is released before playing with it - beta testing is not for the faint of heart or for those with limited play time. I fall in the the latter category!